An interesting story on National Public Radio this morning: Lindows is a new computer operating system that’s being sold with PC’s for under $300. Its main selling point is its “click and run” application that allows users to easily download software. Although Microsoft and computer industry experts don’t think Lindows and Windows are competing for …
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From the California newspapers, yesterday and today … the LA Times describes the conditions leading to the first Stage 2 alert (when reserves go below 5%); the San Francisco Chronicle attributes the stress, at least in part, to a breakdown in conservation. Today’s LA Times story also points out the lower conservation than last June, …
I was going to spend some time today writing about the heat wave in the West, and how the California electricity network and “market” are responding to this first big stress in a very long time. Then I read Charles Oliver’s outstanding editorial from yesterday on EnterpriseEconomy.com (link courtesy of Instapundit, thanks Glenn), and now …
In my relaxed perusals of the news this holiday weekend, I found two extremely good analyses by the typically good Amity Shlaes of the Financial Times. In her 27 June column she made a very important point about tipping in restaurants and a recent Supreme Court decision: In the Fior d’Italia case, summed up on …
The IAEE conference was very good — lots of interesting papers, and I was fascinated by the similarities and the differences of the issues and approaches across this very international group of economists. In the next couple of days I’ll be posting a summary of remarks from Lord Nigel Lawson, who was Chancellor of the …
I’m off to Aberdeen, the home of the UK oil industry. Can’t wait!! I hope to find some good uisge beatha there as well; that’s water of life, or whisky in English.
Another variable in OPEC’s ability to sustain cooperation in the cartel is something they will discuss today at their meeting: the fall of the US dollar. As this story reports, the currency in which oil trades are denominated us the US dollar, so its decline is not good news for oil producers who are trying …
One of the charming and fascinating things about British culture is the contradictory use of euphemisms for some things, and brutally frank phrasings for other things. The word “toilet” is one such contradiction — whereas we Americans say “restroom” or “ladies room”, even properly-brought-up Brits will say “excuse me, where is the toilet?” I must …
I noticed something yesterday (Tuesday) that is quite different from the last several visits I made here, and from when I lived here four years ago. There are many, many more cyclists on the roads, and the cyclists no longer wear face masks to filter out the particulate in the air. London’s air is still …
I spent three-plus hours yesterday at the Victoria and Albert Museum, a monument to Victorian intellectual omnivorousness (and the grandeur of the Empire, of course). Most of this time I spent only in the ceramics and pottery galleries. The evolution of ceramics uses, decoration, themes and techniques illustrates and parallels economic growth more broadly. The …
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